Category Archives: Human trafficking

The film, It’s A Girl (available now on Netflix watch instantly), casts a light on the way girls in India and China are discriminated against because of their sex. According to the film’s website, the UN estimates as many as … Continue reading →

In the article below, The New York Times reveals the launching of a new game promoted by Facebook that brings the book Half the Sky to virtual life in an attempt to expose the atrocities and challenges facing women around the … Continue reading →

In this article Holly Smith, a human trafficking survivor and activist, discusses the US Department of Transportation’s push to involve survivor input in helping train employees to recognize and prevent human trafficking. The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, and Amtrak joined forces … Continue reading →

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office website contains information about what they call “sexual trafficking” (including child pornography). They provide statistics about their individual state but also national statistics. One staggering statistic from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children … Continue reading →

Not sure if anyone read in Today’s Greenville Paper (The Daily Reporter) but Nick Kristof wrote a commentary on the debate surrounding Greg Mortenson and his books and successes in Afghanistan. Everyone should check it out! I also found it on … Continue reading →

This is the story of a Mexican woman who was taken from Mexico and brought to the US as a work slave. She was lied to by her trafficker to get her to come to the country and then was … Continue reading →

This article explores how the United States is (very) slowly waking up to something that was realized in Sweden long ago (and was proven to work!)…that in order to truly combat the commercial sex trade (both consensual and non-consensual) they … Continue reading →

–Leila McInnis Hundreds of thousands of women are taken from their homes every year and forced to have sex for money. Sex-trafficking is defined by the US State Department as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person … Continue reading →

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wosu/news.newsmain/article/0/1/1768137/WOSU.News/Advocates.Sex.Trafficking.Prominent.in.Central.Ohio This is the story told by Vanessa who, after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol, was forced into prostitution in central Ohio. She started out prostituting to earn money for drugs but after being arrested several times, a friend … Continue reading →

CNN has created a projected called ending modern-day slavery. On the website for ending modern-day slavery there is detailed information about the problems. The websites says that there are between 10 to 30 million slaves in the world now. There … Continue reading →